Cook: No. Comics are very good at being vampires and sleeping till 3:30 in the afternoon. Rarely will you see them come together to participate in team sports.

SI: How did you get the MLB gig?

Cook: They learned of my affinity for baseball, which goes back to my father, George. The Boston Braves scouted my dad in 1952. He played third base in high school but decided to serve his country in Korea.

Week 1 of the NFL season put Super Bowl contenders to the test, and the AFC power with the most to prove answered resoundingly as the Chargers stared down a stiff challenge from the Bears and sent the NFC champs limping home

Texas may have survived a scare from TCU, but as Longhorns coach Mack Brown points out, with most schools now featuring dangerous players at the skill positions, the days of overmatched non-BCS programs rolling over for the perennial powers are gone